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EVERMORE LOVE TRIANGLE THEORYYY

SO I realized this almost as a fever dream the other night, and I have no clue if anyone else has discovered this yet, but I have a theory that there’s ANOTHER love triangle hidden through the evermore songs, which parallels the folklore love triangle.

So we start off with the song dorothea. Her old lover (for the sake of this, let’s call him Allan) is reflecting on Dorothea kind of in a positive light, but saying he’ll be around for her if she ever wants to come back to Tupelo. Well in ‘tis the damn season, she does. The connection between these songs has already been confirmed by Taylor.

We know that Dorothea broke Allan’s heart, with the lyric “there’s an ache in you, put there by the ache in me.” And Dorothea seems to regret this decision. Now I like the think that maybe Dorothea and Allan are the couple in champagne problems. Oftentimes the artsy, fame-seeking kind that Dorothea is described to be could also be called “fucked in the head,” whether for wanting the fame or for the mental illnesses that often come along with artistic interests. Maybe that’s a reason that she rejected Allan’s proposal, that she wasn’t ready to settle down and become a wife as the hometown skeptics would have wanted (the use of the word “hometown” is also a threading connection between ‘tis the damn season and champagne problems). Maybe Dorothea wanted to go off and become a star, and she knew that life wouldn’t fit what Allan wanted, to stay in Tupelo.

Now in the events of champagne problems, Dorothea even thinks about the girl who will someday “patch up the tapestry that [she] shred”. But when we get to the songs dorothea and ‘tis the damn season, there’s no thought or mention of Allan’s potential new love. That could be because there isn’t one, but I think that Allan ended up marrying a woman named Este. I know, I know, this seems like a really far jump. But maybe this is why Dorothea knew she and Allan could only last a weekend, because he had Este. And when do we find out about this affair in no body, no crime? A Tuesday. This would be after the weekend the affair took place. Allan splurged a bit on Dorothea with some fancy merlot and jewelry. And when Este confronts him about it? Well, the song takes it from there. Then Allan is free to be with Dorothea, as in her namesake song we see that he’s incredibly hung up on her.

I don’t think Dorothea was in on the murder, but was almost thankful that it happened because after her weekend affair, she realized that she didn’t want to leave what she described as “the warmest bed [she’d] ever known.” She had gone to LA, done her thing out there, but was relieved to know that Allan wanted her back just as much (and maybe even more) as she wanted him back.

Like I said, I know that sounds like a crazy jump. But it really isn’t, because of two lyrics:

“Time flies, messy as the mud on your truck tires” - ‘tis the damn season

“And I noticed when I passed his house his truck has got some brand new tires” - no body, no crime

Another thing, I kind of like to think of this as the foil to the folklore love triangle. James realized his mistake, and wanted Betty back, and in Taylor’s mind they end up getting back together. But in the evermore love triangle, Allan would rather be with Dorothea than Este, and there are dire consequences because of it.

The folklore love triangle is a summer affair for the summer album, where the relationship survives and grows, as things do in summer. But the evermore love triangle is a winter affair, which dies and dies and dies, a million little times.

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